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Message: [QUOTE="Beriac, post: 376703, member: 9064"] Personally, unless a poker site is really shifty and I really believed that it was just plain crooked, I would assume that the distribution of cards dealt is just random. You might flip a coin 6 times and find it comes up 'heads' 5 times, but it's still a random outcome. Pocket pairs as a group are not that rare: - When dealt 2 cards at random from a 52-card deck, there are 2,652 possible hands you could be dealt (52 * 51). - Of those, there are 6 of each pocket pair to be dealt (heart+diamond, heart+spade, heart+club, diamond+spade, diamond+club, space+club). - There are 13 different levels of pocket pairs to be dealt (deuces, threes, fours, etc). - 13 * 6 = about 3%, which is the amount of the time we should expect to be dealt pocket pairs. Sure, pocket pairs twice in a row is lucky, it's about 3% * 3% = about 0.1%. Sure, that's rare, but that means for every 1,000 times you are dealt 2 sets of hands, you should expect to once be dealt pocket pairs twice in a row. And I think between us, we've played enough hands of poker that even the unlikeliest thing should be happening from time to time. If any of these sites are actually rigging their hands dealt in [B]any[/B] way, it would be a massive case of fraud because of the dollars involved. When you can run a thriving, successful business without rigging a darned thing, why on earth would you bother? And aren't these things audited independent too? I stick to playing reputable sites, but on those sites I'm confident that I'm being dealt random cards, and that the flop, turn, and river are random also. If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't put money there, simple as that. Just my 2 cents... [/QUOTE]

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